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Sports Shorts for Oct. 9: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Three Engineers earn NEWMAC Player of the Week honors; women's tennis remains in first place in NEWMAC standings.
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Overall and Conference Records (as of Oct. 8)
Field Hockey: 11-2 (4-1 NEWMAC)
Football: 3-2 (2-1 NEFC)
Men's Soccer: 8-2-1 (1-1-1 NEWMAC)
Women's Soccer: 9-2-1 (5-0 NEWMAC)
Women's Tennis: 5-1 (4-0 NEWMAC)
Women's Volleyball: 20-3 (5-1 NEWMAC)
Water Polo: 6-8

National Rankings
#2 – Women's Cross Country
#6 – Water Polo
#14 – Co-ed Sailing

Men's Cross Country
10/7 – Men's Cross Country Finishes 13th at NEICAAAs

Women's Cross Country
10/7 – Engineers Finish 5th of 37 teams at NEICAAA Championships

Field Hockey
10/8 – Molly McShane Named NEWMAC Defensive Player of the Week
10/6 – Engineers Rally Past Mount Holyoke, 2-1
10/2 – Barker Scores Twice in 4-1 Win over Wellesley

Football
10/6 – MIT Powers Past Plymouth State, 28-7

Sailing
10/8 – No. 14 Sailing Competes at NEISA Match Racing Championship
10/1 – No. 14 MIT Earns Runner-up Finish at Smith Trophy

Men's Soccer
10/8 – Andrew Young Receives NEWMAC Accolades
10/6 – Men's Soccer Defeats WPI, 2-0
10/2 – Men's Soccer Tops Salve Regina, 3-0

Women's Soccer
10/8 – Fleischmann Named NEWMAC Offensive Player of the Week
10/6 – Women's Soccer Shuts out Mount Holyoke, 3-0
10/2 – Engineers Defeat Wellesley, 2-1, in Double Overtime
10/1 – Meghan Wright Earns NEWMAC Accolades

Women's Tennis
10/6 – Women's Tennis Downs Clark, 7-2
10/2 – MIT Claims First In NEWMAC Standings with 6-3 Win at Wellesley
10/1 – Quisenberry, Tam Sweep NEWMAC Player of the Week Awards

Women's Volleyball
10/4 – MIT Blanks WPI, Reaches 20-Win Mark
10/3 – Engineers Battle Wheaton in Four-Set Win
10/1 – MIT Captures JWU Fall Classic Title

Water Polo
10/6 – Water Polo Edged out by St. Francis, 14-11
10/6 – Connecticut College Falls to MIT Water Polo

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